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Submitted by James Munn on September 13, 2007 – 12:05 am10 Comments

V1.92 After finishing up a movie tonight, I decided to have a nightcap of some Tekken Online. Unfortunately (well, fortunately) the PS3 told me that V1.93 of their firmware was available for download.

It’s definitely there, but for some reason I can’t get more than 4% of the download. Taking a glance at the Playstation forums shows me why there’s such a holdup. Big Jewish holiday weekend, kids are off from school and playing online.

I’ve got work tomorrow. *shrug*

**Update**

After about fifteen minutes and a couple retrys, the download completed and installed.

Trev

I got it downloaded and installed, but I wasn’t having any of the issues it was supposed to fix so I was really just doing it for the sake of being up to date.

If you’re having trouble downloading it via the psn (I didn’t, but it fixes psn connection issues) you could check the website and stick it on a memory stick or usb flash drive.
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Downloaded plenty fast for me first thing this morning.
Danny

PS3 firmware is one of the many problems with it. For one the interface isn’t that great, you must reset every time you download it, not to mention that they are too frequent and add features most people don’t care about.
Sifer2400

it does have to many i see the 360 it it just has like 1 every half a year
Oskamunda

Danny, the interface is bad? Last time I checked, every time windows has an update for it, it has to restart. That’s a microsoft property, isn’t it? There is just no good way to get around a reboot when system information is updated, whether critical or not.

And Sifer, apart from your atrocious grammar, why is it that an abundance of PS3 updates is too many? Maybe in retrospect, especially considering the red ring of death and other issues of the 360 destroying games you put in it, Microsoft doesn’t release enough updates.

The bottom line is that Sony is trying to keep up with demand. People buy Warhawk, they want it to run smooth. Sony answers. People wanted wallpaper options and flash-able backgrounds. Sony answered. After two years, Microsoft has finally answered the concerns of its own customers who were given faulty hardware, but it still may be too little, too late (especially when Microsoft releases their next Xbox and closes down their 360 department entirely, like last time. Why didn’t that piss anybody off, by the way? Oh, yeah, you could all afford to get 360′s, that’s right.).

I’m just waiting for Sony to answer the call for a smarter music filing system that isn’t related to mp3 tags or at least some version of PSAMP for a playlist or something.
Bill Gates

Hey Okie. For an out of work, still living with mom, warcraft addict, PS3 fanboy you sure sound like an expert on Microsoft.

Well yer not. Lay off the jive ya sucker and leave the heavy lifting to the experts up here in Redmond, Washington (right down the road from Seattle for you geography impaired halfwits).
Sifer2400

@Oskamunda
LMao you wreak of fanboy stench,”especially considering the red ring of death and other issues of the 360″ at least MS doesn’t force new technology up the customers throat and gauge the price up an unthinkable 600$. pfft even with the RROD its still going strong MS owned up to it and reimbursed anyone who had to pay for a repair due to that reason. i hate random noobs like you. stupid fanboy get a life.
Oskamunda

What are you crackheads talking about? “Wreak of fanboy stench?” “Random noobs like you?” “Leave the heavy lifting to the pros?” “Out of work, still living with mom, warcraft addict?”

First off, I am married and have two children, live in my own home at the age of 24. And I hate warcraft. I think the sixaxis sucks, and I think that the PS3 has some other major issues that need to be solved, such as a lack of GAMES. But if you were interested in having an actual intellectual conversation about the topic at hand you wouldn’t resort to flaming and hater speak.

I don’t have a problem with the Xbox as a platform for games, I have a problem with Microsoft’s business strategy. Let’s face the truth here; the Xbox would have gone the way of the NeoGeo, the TurboGrafx 16, the 3DO, the Philips CDI, etc. etc. if weren’t a Microsoft property. They just have too much money to not survive as the new kid on the block. Microsoft, in all its platforms, has been delivering weak, short-lived, watered down tech to its consumers, all plagued with serious problems. They bully developers for price points on Xbox Live Marketplace, pressure exclusivity, and throw enormous amounts of money at people to ensure market dominance despite content. ($50 million for two exclusive levels for GTA4, anyone?) Not to mention that, if you want your Xbox 360 to do what the PS3 does right out of the box, you WILL spend the same amount of money in peripherals and add-ons. The thing doesn’t even support HD without a peripheral drive, for God’s sake.

Sony, on the other hand, is being progressive, as it always has been. The PS3 actually costs $800 to make, their cost, and they sell it at a loss, just as they did with the PS2. They “cram new technology down the consumer’s throats” at less cost and provide products and services that will last for the better part of a decade. Notice, also, how PS2 games still seem to be coming out, just in case not everybody can afford a PS3, like my “jobless” ass can. PS2 warranties are still in effect, too. Hmm, what do we call that? Oh, yeah, consumer-friendly. Sony releases seemingly frivolous updates for the PS3 and PSP at semi-regular intervals because the customers ASK for it. I’m sorry if that offends.

Microsoft has done such a good job with their business strategy that people forget all these things, and have them HAPPY that the other guys can’t play BioShock or Gears of War. I guess you guys have forgotten about the old days when the PSone came out and the PS2 dominated for almost a decade, and STILL has the horsepower to contend.

It must be all the flamespeak eating all the brain cells in your skull.

That or all that heavy lifting.
Oskamunda

By the way, Warcraft is only marginally alright, and not worth any addiction. But I guess any WoW junkie wouldn’t understand the concept of the real world and quality versus quantity in their merchandise.